CRIME AND CRASH

Mumbai, March 30: An 18-year-old girl committed suicide in a hotel room near the airport at Andheri (E). Her body was found hanging from the ceiling fan on Thursday morning. The deceased, Rajanala Kusuma Sri Shambhavi, ran away from her Hyderabad home on March 3. She had stayed in around dozen hotels in Mumbai before checking into the Andheri hotel on Tuesday. She had left a suicide note stating

Chennai, March 29: He was a child of poverty who was adopted by bright future. But just when he was a step away from realising his dream of becoming an engineer and a poet, the 23-year-old chose to go into the arms of death. Until a few years ago, life for S. Manivannan was moving around the villages of Salem, Dharmapuri and nearby districts — looking for brick kilns that would hire him and his

Bangalore, March 29: Nitish Bera, a 36-year-old City-based jeweller, was found murdered a day after he was allegedly kidnapped from near his shop on Avenue Road. An unclaimed body dumped near the Dobbespet flyover was on Wednesday identified to be that of Bera, the police said. Bera, from Kolkata, was living with his family at Richmond Town. He owned a shop, BRN Jewellers, at Avenue road. On

Pune, March 29: The Khadak police on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old man for killing his wife on Wednesday morning. The man, Vikram alias Vicki Malhari Rasale, a resident of Excel Apartments in Guruwar Peth, allegedly throttled his wife Swati alias Rani (27) to death. The police also found several bite marks on Swati's body. Assistant commissioner of police Ranjit Dhure told TOI, "We suspect

Polba (hooghly), March 29: Less than 24 hours of a woman being raped by robbers in South 24-Parganas' Canning, a gang of four murdered a wealthy farmer in Hooghly's Polba around midnight on Tuesday, raped his wife before fleeing with valuables. Patna village, where the incident took place, is around 60 km from Kolkata. The woman was sent for a medical examination after she broke down and narrated

Chennai, March 28: A 21-year-old engineering student committed suicide by hanging in a hostel room on the Anna University campus on Tuesday. Police suspect the boy had a failed love affair. S Manivannan, a native of Poppy Reddy Patti in Dharmapuri district was found hanging from the ceiling fan in his room, using a dhoti. Fellow students informed hostel warden Sheik Mansur, who in turn called

Mangalore, March 28: Balakrishnan (45) and his wife Sharada (38), natives of Chantady in Kasargod district, were found hanging in a lodge in Dhamastala on Tuesday. According to the police, the couple had come on a pilgrimage to Dharmastala along with their three children. The local police have recovered a suicide note from their hotel room written in Malayalam.

Midnapore, March 28: A young girl fought off her alleged molester - her 44-year-old cousin - with a spade but ended up killing him in her house in Keshpur's Damodar Chowk. She walked some 8-9 km to Keshpur police station and surrendered even as the dead man's neighbours staged protests in the locality to have her arrested. The alleged molester, Sk Salauddin, was a married man with a child. Police

Bangalore, March 28: The mutilated body of a 13-year-old boy was recovered from the foothills of Hanumagiri hill at Ittamadu here on Tuesday morning. The Subramanyapura police have zeroed in on four boys from a nearby slum as suspects in the alleged murder of Abhishek, a class VIII student of Ittamadu Government High School. A case has been registered and the suspects are being questioned

Melbourne, March 27: A Perth-based Indian student will spend 14 months in jail for his involvement in a scam to falsify English test scores to get Australian visas. Rajesh Kumar, 31, faced ten charges for his part in fraudulently altering the International English Testing System (IELTS) scores at Perth's Curtin University between November 2009 and June 2010. A Perth District Court sentenced Rajesh